Sherra Aguirre speaks with Jean about the leadership role she took on in her community to promote changing the typical African American diet.
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Jean introduces Sherra
3:04 Sherra discusses her background and how she got into health counseling. Talks about growing up and about race.
6:31 Sherra discovers that people in her community don’t know the impact of food on health.
7:46 Sherra gets a real estate broker’s license, meets her then-husband, and starts a janitorial services company with him. They divorce and she has to learn the operational side of the business quickly.
13:28 Sherra forges an alliance with a White banker who teaches her the ropes.
18:04 The ethic of never giving up.
20:07 Learning to speak truth to power.
25:30 Sherra goes to UT and is immersed in White America for the first time. She becomes a campus organizer after a racial slur.
33:13 Finding the right people, learning from mentors.
36:59 The book “Joyful, Delicious, Vegan: Life Without Heart Disease,” and how Sherra went from eating fried foods to becoming a committed vegan. Requires self-discipline, keeping track, determination to get off meds.
38:46 Learning how to change to a vegan diet.
46:56 “The only way to fail is if you quit.”
48:29 Meditation, yoga, and gratitude-based affirmations every morning.
51:19 Working with SHAPE and Deloyd Parker, Executive Director. You can’t take away resources from nonprofits, you have to bring resources in.
1:04:24 Wrap-up: steps to success
1) Stepping out on faith.
2) Don’t quit, figure it out.
3) People you inspire will help you achieve.
1:07:32 4) Self care.
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Sherra Aguirre Author of Joyful, Delicious, Vegan: Life Without Heart Disease |
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Sherra Aguirre is the author of Joyful, Delicious, Vegan: Life Without Heart Disease, released in May 2021. She is a successful entrepreneur and was founder and CEO of a nationally recognized services company, which she sold to focus on her passion for health and wellness. Sherra describes herself as high energy, in better overall health, and in many ways more fit than in her thirties or forties. She has practiced meditation and yoga daily for more than 25 years, and has always researched and read extensively about diet and lifestyle as the most important factors for achieving and maintaining good health. By adopting a whole plant-based diet, Sherra eliminated her symptoms of hypertension and improved her overall health despite a significant family history of high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke. She is passionate about empowering others to maintain vibrancy and good health throughout their lifetimes by changing how we eat. |
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